X server crash when running texworks

[Ken Brown]

On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 26/03/2012 21:32, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> One further detail for anyone trying to reproduce this: I just
>>>>> tried it on a
>>>>> second computer, and my recipe didn't immediately produce the
>>>>> crash. But I
>>>>> simply started trying to use texworks (loading and compiling
>>>>> various tex
>>>>> documents), and the X server crashed within a few minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much for the detailed report.
>>>>
>>>> On the off chance this is a known issue, would you mind downloading
>>>> the X
>>>> server symbols and getting a backtrace using the instruction on [1],
>>>> before I
>>>> try to reproduce it.
>>>
>>> OK, the backtrace is attached.
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't reproduce your issue, but looking at the backtrace
>> and the
>> somewhat intermittent nature of the fault, I think perhaps this crash is
>> caused by a race condition which exists in the conversion of the
>> window icon
>> from an X property to a Windows icon.
>>
>> I've uploaded a snapshot with some fixes for that at [1], perhaps you
>> could
>> try that out and see if it helps?
>>
>> [1]
>> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120328-git-ab32650607c59327.exe.bz2
>
> Yes, that seems to fix it. I just started texworks and compiled 6 or 7
> tex documents without a crash. I've never been able to do more than 1 or
> 2 before.

I spoke too soon.  I closed texworks and was doing other things (not 
even involving X to my knowledge), and the X server just crashed.  I'm 
attaching XWin.0.log.

Ken
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